It was often not organizationally feasible because you needed permission to spend those weeks up front, instead of working on something else, just to get to where you knew enough to give approval to finish the work.
Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time.
The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest.
Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time.
The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest.